[racket-dev] DrRacket PF1 Search Bug?

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> Ah, thanks! I see that if it is trying to load the docs that are in
> /Applications then it runs the code below, which somehow magically
> drops the query argument by the time safari gets it. It's not because
> of the space, either; when I rename "Racket v6.1.1.5" to just "r", it
> also doesn't work. But if I change the path to one in my home
> directory (just like the one you write below), then I see it works.
>
> Puzzling. It's almost like there is special handling for /Applications
> instead of /Users.

Something that might be relevant here: on Windows, the query (?...) or
fragment (#...)  bits of a URL are dropped when you run them.  That's
why I made it use a "trampoline" file: it creates a small HTML file
which can open fine, and that file redirects to the full URL.

At some point, Linux joined this with "xdg-open" not passing along these
things also, and needed a similar hack (which IIRC, wasn't done).  So it
might be that OSX is doing something similar now.

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